Kenneth Smale

Created a consulting business delivering health, performance, and data science solutions to elite athletes and training facilities; developed ingest pipelines and automated performance reports exported to a web portal.

Led performance strategy and analytics for 130+ professional, collegiate, and high-school athletes; engineered predictive models for player evaluation and automated scouting and performance reporting tools used by athletes and agents.

Directed cross-departmental performance initiatives across analytics, medical, S&C, nutrition, and scouting; applied machine learning to monitor fatigue and injury risk and built a scaled in-house Athlete Management System delivering stakeholder insights.

Led biomechanical research and product development to enhance skating performance and reduce injury risk; designed orthopedic assessments and contributed to mobile app development for coaching and first responder training.

Advised on installation and integration of a stadium-scale markerless motion capture system (Simi), built data pipelines and updated SQL databases to support long-term analytics and stakeholder insights.

Applied machine learning to wearable and markerless movement data to predict fatigue and health status; developed classification models (Bayesian, SVM, neural networks) and managed large datasets while mentoring graduate students.

Conducted biomechanics research on injury prediction and movement simulation; built musculoskeletal models to reduce soft tissue artifact and applied regression modeling to predict fatigue across exercises.

Activities and societies: Dissertation research; 21 published journal articles; 5 invited talks; 30 conference proceedings; scholarships and bursaries totaling over 475,000 CAD.

Completed a doctoral program in biomechanics with a dissertation on knee function after ACL injury, producing multiple peer-reviewed publications and funded research.

Activities and societies: Dissertation research and fast-tracked into the PhD program.

Completed a master's degree in biomechanics with a dissertation on neuromuscular contributions to tibiofemoral contact mechanics and knee stability.

Grade: Graduated with Distinction

Activities and societies: Member of Men's Varsity Soccer team all four years; Dean's Honour List.

Earned a bachelor's degree in human kinetics, graduating with distinction and participating on the men's varsity soccer team.